JDH: Hello Cédric, first and foremost I’d like to thank you for sparing some time for this interview with the Journal du hacker. Can you tell us who you are?

Last year (2017) will go in history as the first year of production of the ğ1 currency.
A milestone to be remembered as the community’s efforts had until then been almost entirely devoted to launching production of the world’s first 100% P2P “freedom-enabling” cryptocurrency. Looking back at 2017 …

The Bitcoin has a reputation for being an energy consuming network. Duniter inherits some of the Bitcoin's properties, such as the proof of work and the blockchain. People are therefore legitimately asking this question:

Is Duniter also energy consuming ?

A little bit of definition

Since 4 July 2017 I keep detailed statistics on the status of the web of trust that you can view on g1-monit.elois.org.These statistics are produced by the duniter pluginduniter-currency-monit (duniter-currency-monit), which is used directly in the local block of the duniter node on which it is …

Changes

This version brings several improvements in network stability, notably through faster resolution of the * forks * of the blockchain. Also, pool identities and certifications are now more regularly resynchronized.